Do you know of Rose Valley ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rose Valley. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Rose Valley.

Our sources for Rose Valley (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Rose Valley other than they indicate that Rose Valley would be found somewhere in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Rose Valley ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Rose Valley.

There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Rose Valley.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rose Valley [Delaware County].
- Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rose Valley [Montgomery County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rose Valley [Hillsborough County].
- Kansas
  - Osborne County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rose Valley [Osborne County].
  - Pratt County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rose Valley [Pratt County].
  - Stafford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rose Valley [Stafford County].
- Nevada
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rose Valley [Lincoln County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Rose Valley.
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Rose Valley.
- Tennessee
  - Stewart County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rose Valley [Stewart County].
- Washington
  - Cowlitz County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Rose Valley [Cowlitz County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rose Valley ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rose Valley:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rose Valley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Lycoming County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Lycoming County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Rose Valley could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.